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Humanities
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music
Un pueblo y un camino
Desde Quito les dijeron que su carretera era imposible, y así parecía: implicaba abrir 120 kilómetros de trocha, cruzar tres quebradas de grandes precipicios y construir el puente más largo del Ecuador de entonces. Pero sin ella, la «Banda oriental del Carchi» (Julio Andrade, Huaca, Cristóbal Colón, San Gabriel, La Paz, Bolívar) se habría quedado aislada del resto del país y sin acceso al nuevo medio de transporte que revolucionaba al mundo: el automóvil. Los pueblos del Carchi y del norte de Imbabura, con el liderazgo de la ciudad de San Gabriel, decidieron construirla con sus propias fuerzas, entre 1927 y 1936. Este trabajo se enmarca dentro de dos géneros poco cultivados en el país: la historia local y la historia de las vías de comunicación. Está escrito principalmente para la gente común, y permitirá descubrir qué elementos hicieron posible esa hazaña; conocer sobre las mingas más grandes del Ecuador republicano; reconocer a los héroes visibles y anónimos de la gesta; observar cómo la población del cantón Montúfar celebró ese triunfo; reflexionar sobre las posibilidades de que los pueblos definan su propia identidad, también en el mundo de hoy.
City at the Center of the World
In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito as the "new Rome." It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades into the surrounding wilderness, and the purveyor of civilization to the entire region. By the early twentieth century, elites envisioned the city as the heart of a modern, advanced society—poised at the physical and metaphysical centers of the world. In this original cultural history, Ernesto Capello analyzes the formation of memory, myth, and modernity through the eyes of Quito's diverse populations. By employing Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of chronotopes, Capello views the configuration of time and space in narrativ...
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